Wheatley

If this works they're visible here - https://maps.app.goo.gl/ogr7QKR9ToHJhcwX9 No idea though, sorry.

Halford or Games Workshop Chaos Black / Coral White here too, it doesn't need a thick coat and it takes Vallejo Model Colour with no reaction. Model Colour does need a coat of matt varnish afterwards to stop it rubbing off though as it's not as hard-wearing as Tamiya acrylic or any enamel. I've never washed a plastic kit with anything prior to painting.

All my bills are on DD and have been for years, and they all come out on the 1st of the month. That way I don't forget when they're all due. Just to complicate things I get paid every 4 weeks rather than monthly, so pay day moves relative to DD day through the year. The trick is to never let the current account balance drop below the amount needed to clear DD day (you only need to set this up once), the advantage is that one month every year you get paid twice for one set of DDs. I should point out that my bank is considerably more competent and easy to contact than the morons who supply my gas and electricity, but that's not a terribly high bar.

You still need 9'0" etches though, BR1s were 8'6". Your axleboxes with be out of kilter with the wheels otherwise.

Regardless of the heating practicalities, putting the radiators under the windows leaves the other walls free for furniture. You can't (normally) put it against the windows, but you can't put it against the rads either. All our radiators are on internal walls because the previous owner was a skinflint and that used the least amount of copper piping, and its a pain. The bedrooms aren't too bad because they're in the same corners as the doors, but downstairs there are large areas of wall I can't stand book cases or sideboards etc against because the rads are in the way.

I won't have a smart meter until it becomes financially unviable not to have one. I know they'll get me eventually but I'll make is difficult as I can in the meantime for the useless incompetent money grabbing twonks. (Yes Ovo, I mean you). As for not having to read the meter: 26th Jan, letter arrives - "You need to send us a meter reading". Well last time I sent you a reading, and the time before that, and the time before that you estimated it anyway, on one occasion for less than my reading. So you can do one. 1st Feb, meter reader arrives ! Nearly fell over in shock even offered him a brew. 14th Feb. Estimated bill arrives ! Morons.

This isn't a bay, it's a through platform and the only running line so even more unlikely to be dual use, but nevertheless it has a passenger platform one side and the loading dock for a creamery on the other. Sorbie station, Newton Stewart to Whithorn branch: https://www.viewdumfriesandgalloway.co.uk/view-item?i=10081#kS8j0FSe8ewAAAF_PLfjtQ/10081

SS is right, some of the differences are down to variations in the real ones. For the other bits, here they are side by side: Hornby in plain crimson with couplings, Bachmann in lined maroon without. Apart from the ropey rubber gangways the Bachmann one is actually better than I remember above the solebar.

Agreed. The Hornby one is top drawer, I picked up both mine as remaindered bargains in my LMS but I don't know how often that happens these days. The Bachmann one is dimensionally accurate (I think) but of its time. Mine are earmarked for replacement Comet sides and chassis bits at some point, the Hornby ones will just get weathered.

I'm sure he is. It will have a top notch paint job no doubt but the rest will be pure 1960s Triang. I think the fascination amongst enthusiasts is that it was a) pretty and b) still around to look at, the fascination with modellers being nostalgia because Triang did it. Rails might be getting a pre-order, I don't really fancy trying to beat the DJH chassis into shape ...

123 also double headed with Gordon Highlander on the very line I'm modelling, so kits for both have been in the cupboard for years. In theory 123 should be an easy build from the LRM kit - no valve gear or quartering to worry about and just the tender to source as the LRM kit has a different one. The plan for that is super detailed Tri-ang believe it or not ! Painting it will be fun, Gordon Highlander more so ...

Seeing as the RTR manufacturers are picking their way through my unbuilt kit pile, I confidently predict that the next Scottish locos to be announced will be the So'jer and Glen Douglas. They won't do CR 123 because that's the one I really want. I'm modelling the 1960s so the preserved liveries are authentic for me. There's something strangely satisfying about sticking 25kv warning placards on a pre-grouping livery.

I missed 2020's because of the weather so this was my first visit since 2019. Well worth the 7 or so hours round trip on the train, and a free ride on a old bus to boot (aren't there a lot of traffic lights in Glasgow ?). Blair Atholl was one of the first layouts I ever saw on the web rather than in a magazine (when Webrings were a thing, remember them?), never seen it in the flesh and I wasn't disappointed. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Yes. Google "Varley report" and "NR/L2/OTK/5201" for details.

Given that drilling a hole is usually easier to than cutting a slot, I have in the past drilled a 1.5mm hole for the shank and superglued it in. If the shank can be bent over at the back so much the better. The sides of the hole are either filled in with gel cyano and made good, of hidden behind one of Il Grifone's etched plate. This method obviously precludes springing the hook.

This is fine sandpaper painted.

Thanks, I'll run that name past a couple of ex-Darton mates and see what they come up with. I've come across the same problem with Facebook history/memories groups and railway pictures, they tend to be scans of familiar published photos although they do turn up the odd gem. But they're sometimes worth their weight in gold if you want a photo of the local coalman's lorry, even if Grandad Fred is unhelpfully standing in front of half the lettering on the cab doors ! I've had a look in various books upstairs but only turned up more photos of the down side buildings and 1980s views of 56s etc in the upside loop, sorry.

If you go on Facebook and find a group called "Lost Pits of Yorkshire" there are a few photos of the colliery itself, including wagons standing under the screens. I can't find any of the sidings though. I'm intrigued as to what that group of buildings is on the up side, on the corner of Woolley Colliery Road - it's only ever been a clump of trees as long as I've known it ! (1980 onwards).

The postie was still meeting the train with a van at Barnsley around 1989 although whether it was letters, Datapost or small packets I've no idea. Towards the end the regular driver was a young blonde lady who had developed a set of vicious put-downs for guards who suddenly found it necessary to start carrying bags and loading her trolley up for her instead of just slinging them out. The sliding doors on the Pacers were taken off when it was realised that locking off the parcels area meant there were no doors left on one side of the vehicle, and they served no other purpose than to trap people's fingers.

Thanks, that number series is missing from the 'Era' books as far as I can tell, although it's also possible that it's there and I just can't see it ! We owe Messrs Larkin, Bartlett, Rowland, Monk Steele and others a huge debt of gratitude for recording all this in the first place.

According to Larkin B147494 and B69644 are D1/109s, I can't find the third one though. ("Wagons of the Early BR Era", Kestrel, 2006). Even if they are wrong you can chop them about. For example, you can make B141575 from B147494 and B157570.

I confess I was thinking of the non-shock version ! Oops.

I wonder if that is because a) the wider doors are more useful for some farm-related purposes and b) BR got rid of them quite quickly once they realised they were a liability so they were cast off in good condition. Just a theory.

"Redistribution of redundant assets". If I can see it and you aren't actually using it, it's redundant. A quiet corner of Portwilliam, a Nu-Cast (I think) NBR van pretending to be an ex CR van. The apple trees are clearly the results of cores discarded by an earlier generation of yard staff before the Great War. All still a work in progress.

I had that too ! "Yes officer, my name is "Regional Railways NE Operations". Earlier in the day I and a delivery van driver behind me were first on the scene of a car and caravan jack-knifed across lanes 1 and 2 of the M6 just south of Killington Lake. I phoned the police while the other van driver got the shocked but unhurt occupants of the car out, in the passenger's case by physically picking her up and dumping her over the crash barrier, then we waved the traffic down. The police arrived in fine style a few minutes later. So later that afternoon I was trundling into Penrith on the empty and ruler-straight(ish) A6 at a speed somewhat faster than my cleaning gang mates in my earlier story, and had slowed down a lot but was still going a bit too fast as I passed the 30mph signs. Out jumps the nice policeman with his radar gun and we do the whole "Is this your vehicle?" thing. "No it belongs to the railway" "Do you know how fast you were going ?" "A bit over 30?" "You were doing 39 sir". Then he looked again at the van. "Were you on the M6 this morning ?" "Yes" "Caravan on its side just south of 37 - did you phone it in ?" "Yes" "Good job there. Just steady it down a bit son".